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DIPS

4 letters, 7 points in Scrabble, 1 vowel

What DIPS Means

DIPS is a form of DIP, which means:

  1. verb: immerse briefly into a liquid so as to wet, coat, or saturate“dip the garment into the cleaning solution”
  2. verb: dip into a liquid while eating“She dunked the piece of bread in the sauce”
  3. noun: a depression in an otherwise level surface“there was a dip in the road”
  4. noun: (physics) the angle that a magnetic needle makes with the plane of the horizon

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Definitions from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

What It Scores

DIPS is a valid word in the tournament list this site uses. Tile values only, before any premium square: 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. The letters break down as D2 I1 P3 S1.

Words Made From The Letters In DIPS

11 shorter words come out of these tiles. On a board that matters more than the long play, because a short word on a premium square often beats a long one on plain squares.

3 letter words (6)

2 letter words (5)

Longer Words Containing DIPS

DIPS appears inside each of these, which is what makes it worth knowing as a hook.

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